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Pastoral Care: Body Image

hotlines, guidelines and crisis intervention contacts; and support for pastoral care for children, tweens, teens, families, differently abled persons, elders and folks with memory concerns; including mindfulness, personal care and volunteer support

Books

Fat Church | Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation (Kidd)     My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is SickĀ      My Body Is Good     Weightless

Multimedia

The Girls Are Not Okay: And evangelical theology bears a significant part of the blame

On Not Taking Lent out on Our Bodies

By Jodi Belcher (she/her/hers) in Building Faith on Feb 07, 2023

Colorful image of fat woman with arms outstretched and reaching backwardsWelcome to Fat Church

Spreading a Gospel of Body Liberation

United Church of Christ pastor and theological educator Anastasia Kidd reviews the history of medicalized diet culture, fat studies, beauty, body policing—and the white supremacist machinations underpinning them—in order to advocate for a society rooted in bodily liberation for all. Fat Church offers a disruption to social habits of shame and remembers the theology of abundance that calls us all beloved by God.